México.- The cultural community mourned the death of writer Ignacio Padilla, considered one of the most important writers of his generation, which occurred the day after a car accident.
“We only have knowledge that it was an accident, apparently was in the Mexico-Queretaro highway, but we have more information.
What has happened is truly terrible, is very regrettable, dies at the time of great maturity. We lost in such a tragic way a great writer, “said Jaime Labastida, CEO of the Mexican Academy of Language.
the writer Mauricio Montiel, coordinator Literature INBA, said it has emerged that Padilla was heading from Queretaro, where lay, to Guadalajara to provide a chair but has not confirmed the starting point.
“Nacho is one of the friends and accomplices had, we went through many things, many complicities, many tastes in common, a couple of weeks ago (August 2) will organize in fine arts participation in the cycle Protagonists of Mexican Literature, Nacho was radiant as always, witty and very happy. Now I realize that was an early farewell, “he said.
He added: “Nacho is one of the brightest talents of my generation and subsequent, a writer who had a very wide range of records in the story in the novel, literary criticism. He was the first who reviewed my first book of short stories, in 1992, I never forget it. ” Montiel said that as an institution will be watching whatever is necessary.
In social networks, the writer Pedro Angel Palou, one of the close friends Padilla, wrote:.. “Nothing prepares you for this Nothing justifies the absurdity of such a death My admiration always grew by the great …. writer, but also by the friend of decades, the accomplice my life is incomplete, like his Mexican literature lost one of its great and my compadre, my great friend I remain frozen, stunned insist: nothing say the words. “
in Twitter secretary of Culture, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, wrote:” I deplore the death of Ignacio Padilla, a man of letters in the broadest sense of the word My. condolences to his family “, but gave no further information
in this social network, Jose Carreno Carlon, director of the Fondo de Cultura Economica, wrote.” I deeply regret the death of Ignacio Padilla, great writer and man dedicated to the letters “.
the UNAM, through its Directorate of Publications and Editorial Development he said:” We are saddened by the news of the death of the writer Ignacio Padilla, our condolences to their loved ones “
Other institutions such as the FIL Guadalajara, the INBA; writers like Antonio Ortuño, Hector de Mauleon and Carmen Boullosa, and officials and Aurelio Nuño, Secretary of Education, lamented the death of the writer.
Padilla was narrator, prologuista, translator, author of children’s books, periodicals columnist, literary critic, writer, promoter of culture, polyglot and playwright. He graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana, graduated from teacher at the University of Edinburgh and doctorate at the University of Salamanca.
Many of his works were translated into English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Greek, Korean, Swedish and Hebrew. Of his published works include: Underground (1990) Train of smoke into the under pad (1992), The roles of typical dragon (1993/2001), Last Train (1994) Impossibility of crows (1994/2000), Cathedral drowned (1994), should they be returned Their Majesties (1996/2004), sea storms bottling (1996/2001), Amphitryon (2000), and the antipodes (2001) century, African Chronicles. Illusion and utopia in the Kingdom of Swaziland (2002), a false form of truth (2003); The devil and Cervantes, the weight of things, Mexican Heterodoxos (2006), If you Crack is Boom (2007), Android and chimaeras (2008), For a screw, theology fractals and Life intimate of . lighters (2009)
Some of the awards it won are: the National Test Malcolm Lowry Alfonso Reyes Prize of Literary Youth, Kalpa of Science Fiction, National Child Juan de la Cabada Literature, National for First Novel Juan Rulfo, and the National Short Story Efren Hernandez, Gilberto Owen National Story, and the National Essay José Revueltas; among many others.
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